ATP as universal energy currency
ATP como moneda energética universal
- Date
- 1929-1941 · confidence high
- Place
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin (Lohmann) / Harvard (Lipmann)
- Credited to
- Karl Lohmann (isolation, 1929), Fritz Lipmann (high-energy phosphate bond, 1941)
- People
- 👤 Fritz Albert Lipmann1899–1986👤 Karl Lohmann1898–1978
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
ATP, isolated from muscle, turned out to be the common intermediate that stores and transfers the energy of nutrient oxidation to all cellular processes.
What it led to
- bioenergetics
- exercise physiology
- ATP synthase (Boyer, Walker)
- cell signalling (cAMP, kinases)
Built on
- phosphocreatine
- glycolysis (Embden, Meyerhof)